What has been overlooked so far is that there is still no buildbot version for 2.9 on Bullseye so its increasingly difficult to deploy Linuxcnc on newer hardware that requires say 5.10 kernel and higher. Buildbot is a long way behind current kernel versions.
It's all very fine to support older distros so users don't have to upgrade but what about new users on new hardware? These users currently have no choice but to compile from source or use the Sid or Bookworm releases. If there is a bunch of work to do to fix buildbot, wouldn't that effort be better directed into releasing 2.9 as our official release via Debian in time for the bookworm release? The version freeze is not really far away so now would be a good time to get the new release rolling. To me it seems buildbot is pretty much redundant as it's not adding value on current versions of the OS which newer hardware enforces. Rod Webster *1300 896 832* +61 435 765 611 Vehicle Modifications Network www.vehiclemods.net.au On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 05:51, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. > It sounds to me we will likely/potentially have 3 or 4 versions to > maintain. > buildbot debs release version (for early bugfix users) > Debian version that may or may not be up to date with the buildbot. > Master version for development and traditionally daily use by early > adopters. > > I'm just thinking aloud about how to help people and fix bugs. > It's already a bit of a pain with installed vrs compiled of say two > different versions. > Add a Debian version that might be in between .... > > I guess I hope we keep the Debian version in close lock step with the > buildbot version. > I am glad to hear we can update Debian package we ever we need to. I would > guess the time to go > from pushed fix to Debian update would be quite some time though. > > Chris > ________________________________ > From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <s...@highlab.com> > Sent: September 4, 2022 6:00 PM > To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net < > emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Debian package - what is the future? > > On 9/4/22 10:36, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > There are currently four ways to get pre-built debs of linuxcnc: > > > > 1. debian.org > > > > 2. buildbot > > > > 3. www.linuxcnc.org<http://www.linuxcnc.org> > > > > 4. github "artifacts" > > I forgot to mention another important difference between the debian.org > debs and the buildbot debs: > > The buildbot builds debs from every commit that passes our tests, so the > buildbot debs are very up to date. The debian.org debs are prepared by > a human, so they get updated much less often. > > > -- > Sebastian Kuzminsky > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
